Bharati Enterprises

Bharti is one of India's leading telecom services company and has revolutionized telecommunications with its world-class products and services. Established in 1976, Bharti has been a pioneering force in the telecom sector with many firsts and innovations to its credit, ranging from being the first mobile service in Delhi, first private basic telephone service provider in the country, first Indian company to provide comprehensive telecom services outside India in Seychelles and first private sector service provider to launch national and international long distance services in India.

Bharti Tele-Ventures is one of India's leading private sector provider of telecommunications services with an aggregate of 15.13 million customers as of end of September '05, consisting of approximately 14.07 million mobile customers. The company is the only operator to provide mobile services in all the 23 circles in India. The company also provides telephone services and Internet access over DSL in 15 circles. At the end of the last fiscal, (2004-05) BTVL had registered a turnover of 80,346 million (US$ 1,837 million) and a net profit of Rs. 14,393 million (US$ 329 million). The company complements its mobile, broadband & telephone services with national and international long distance services and has more than 29,000 route kilometers of fiber on its national long distance network. The company also has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects to the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore. BTVL has entered into an agreement to join the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) consortium along with 15 other global telecom operators to jointly develop and own the next generation cable system.

Bharti's efforts in enabling faster and more affordable communications has been recognized not just in this country but across the world and this is manifested in a series of awards that Bharti has received. Some of the recent awards include:

• ET Business Leader of the Year at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence 2005
• Asia's Best GSM Carrier - Telecom Asia
• Airtel as the subcontinent's best mobile service - Asia MobileNews
• India's second best employer - Hewitt Associates
• India's most respected telecom company - Business World
• World Communications 'Best Brand of the Year' Award
• Emerging Company of the Year - The Economic Times Awards
• In the 'Business Week' list of 1000 most valuable companies
• Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman & Group Managing Director, Bharti) - Entrepreneur of the Year - Ernst & Young

Bharti has redefined paradigms in the telecom industry through its innovative managed services agreements in the area of mobile network maintenance, management and deployment with Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens and with IBM for the consolidation, transformation and management of the comprehensive IT infrastructure and applications.

Bharti has built partnerships with international strategic and financial investors such as SingTel, Vodafone, International Finance Corporation, Asian Infrastructure Fund Group and New York Life Insurance.

Bharti Teletech, another Bharti Enterprises company is the largest manufacturer of telecom instruments in India & also exports telephone terminals and cordless phones. The company has been at the forefront of the growing of the open retail market by providing feature-rich and world-class telephone products at affordable prices.

Bharti also has a joint venture with ELRo Holdings India Ltd - 'FieldFresh Foods Pvt. Ltd', for the global distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables in markets such as the European Union, the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, South East Asia, Gulf & CIS countries.

Website: www.bhartiteleventures.com